THE NEW YORKER THE CURRENT CINEMA Stand Up for Art Again - T here Goes the Bride -Clara Bow-and Love in the Desert i :, I ?,/C- _ _ _-,,-- "'.- .r,-:... ...... ro.#' r-P ..... \ r ( : . "-, , , , ih"I" "",,,.d I N the same street with the Mecca Temple, a new movie house has opened under the name of the Fifty-fifth S t r e e t Cinema. A foreword that preceded the show announced the usual things about art, the infant art, and added that the new theatre would devote a great deal of its time to the "pure cinema." You will have to figure that pure cinema phrase out for yourself, as it leaves me bewIldered and inartic- ulate. I thought that, after years of effort, Master Will Hays had finally gotten all the movies to an unrivalled state of purity, but I must have been wrong. Anyway, the Fifty-fifth Street Cinema is small and cool-looking, and here'.s hoping it is successful in its pur- suit of bigger and better Art. The opening program unfurled an entertaining silhouette Arabian Nights "Story, performed after the fashion of the cartoons that Tony Sarg used to do some years ago. If you take the -children to see it do not let them stay for the feature, as they would go home and have bad dreams and keep 'you awake that night. Then there was a color film produced by Maude Adams and the Eastman Laboratories. The colors are very pretty and make kaleidoscopic designs, and a little of it goes a long, long way. <' T HE LEGEND OF THE BEAR'S WEDDING" was the main film. It was made in Russia by the Amkino Company that has given us "Potem- 1_ . " KIn. The story is slightly mad, and the handling of it is not quite so mad, but it should give you an amusing eve- ning. A Russian lady was attacked "by a bear, and her son, born some time after, went through life with a curious .delusion that he could be a pretty good bear himself. When feeling that way he would go out in the woods and bite peasant girls on the neck. His acting in that manner caused a lot of unfa- THE W 11- 77 !" CICARETTE / For theán who feels /entitled to1ífe's ) better thing '\....,/ - - -' - :, <:., _ t/J!i," .I "'.... ,,-.,.' r." .. .' _ ' _ _ \\ E"' .' - "-CVf"::: ... J '-'--- Y :f J " : ',, '; .:..; .. . ,: .:,.. ,:.;\,.....'.- :;" i : :;:'- ' ',-- ,ma ELM1AR{QMEBt't r- " "..,_.. . [R ; :' h '" R :<:-' K ".;>' ^ ';;: :- :: E ;.; :';;j m ;i;. '; 'J ..,., ; . "."- -.....-... ..- .-.'. '-. -.'-.. - . .... . ..'-. .... . :_ _.......:; .::--;.. ::' h:-_.... . . {__. _". . _.. ... h.. - ;;. _-:;.l:;.. : ..._ _ . _= :" >_ . ':=;:::.. -.... .:.; ... __ _ ßi .::....::.:.::. m ..... ::. . 4 ' 7 TU ., : s :....::..: m :..:..:.:.\. BJ .:.'.:::..:\. E :.:.:......::':' E ':-:":"': ;r '::.: ::!;j -." -.. . . ,:.j:'n -. .'. -... ..... r J:; .:} ..\ ':.' :::F"!:i:!!;,f":: '.' ./:. :::: .' ':'::' ,;;::: ':.::-..:2;!'!;.:.:::c"